Schleich - new for 2020

[Brocc21]

The Spinosaur was by Vlad Konstantinov.

[SidB]

The Spinosaur was by Vlad Konstantinov.

Yes, it made all the difference. Where have you gone, Vlad? You are sorely missed this year. I'd come to expect at least a couple of decent sculpts per year, the last couple of years. Oh well, yes, more $ for Safari et al. Once we get a look from other angles of sight, perhaps one or two of this years disappointing crop may merit a second look.

[tanystropheus]

Am I the only person here who thinks the Agustinia is a decent interpretation?

[Toasaurus]

Am I the only person here who thinks the Agustinia is a decent interpretation?

i like it too reguardless of it's inaccuracy

[Kileskus]

Am I the only person here who thinks the Agustinia is a decent interpretation?

Agustinia more likely was not spiked, so called spikes may be just bone fragments. Anyway, the animal is so incomplete, that making an accurate reconstruction is almost impossible.

[ZoPteryx]

Oh my!  Schleich, what happened?!  You were showing so much promise these last few years.   

Cryolophosaurus:  I wound't have thought it'd be possible to make a Cryo worse than CollectA's attempt during their first year, apparently I was wrong.  At least the hands are correct...

Baryonyx:  Ok, a little bit of a ray of sunshine.  Just a few short years ago this would've been the best Baryonyx on the market.  Not nearly as refined as Vlad's Psittacosaurus or Spinosaurus, but still surprisingly accurate.  Even if the color scheme seems a bit unoriginal.

Agustinia:  What.  The.  Heck?!  Forget the unlikely spines, what's wrong with its hands?!  What animal, let alone dinosaur, has hands like that?!  They look webbed like a freshwater turtle!  And what about the shape of the forelimb?  And its smug grin?!  The list goes on...

Ankylosaurus:  Well, there was an attempt.  It's clear the sculpture was looking at a proper Ankylosaurus skull and tail club and got their shapes basically correct.  It's also clear the sculpture was looking at the Papo Ankylosaurus... 

Postosuchus:  Looks like a combination of the outdated WWD Postosuchus and a random stock image digital model I've seen around.  While it has plenty of inaccuracies (exaggerated brow ridges, too long of forelimbs, digitigrade hindlimbs, etc) I find it interesting enough to get if I were to happen upon it.  Happy to support even mediocre figures of non-dinosaurs.

Hopefully they'll have something better in store for the second half of 2020. 

[Shonisaurus]

Am I the only person here who thinks the Agustinia is a decent interpretation?

For me it is the best agustinia made to date that exceeds in level of quality its counterparts of Collecta and Geoworld.

[CityRaptor]

Well, both of these were terrible, so it is not that hard to surpass them.

[suspsy]

Am I the only person here who thinks the Agustinia is a decent interpretation?

Have you read up on Agustinia lately? It may not even exist.

[Shonisaurus]

Am I the only person here who thinks the Agustinia is a decent interpretation?

Have you read up on Agustinia lately? It may not even exist.

Well, it's a complete disappointment. It seemed to me that this dinosaur mixture of sauropod and armored dinosaur was too rare for it to be a real sauropod. That said many dinosaurs are mere interpretation and many of them unfortunately did not exist.

By the way, suspsy Where is it on link or the article where it says that agustinia didn't really exist? Honestly for me it is a disappointment that accumulates with the new and true updated appearance of the tsintaosaurus (which for me was the representation of the mythical unicorn). In any case, the agustinia of Schleich is superior to his sculpture to his counterparts that I have commented, but what was said by CityRaptor to overcome Collecta or Geoworld in relation to the agustinia does not have to make much effort.

But honestly, having said that, Schleich's agustinia seems like a decent figure to me, unfortunately, but at least it has pretty good detail of the naked eye and its legs are stylized, what fails in that figure is its touch of paint, which is not as I would have dreamed (something different is the Schleich cryolophosaurus) but with a repaint I could improve that figure.

[Killekor]

It's sad to see that Schleich's new models aren't good as I expected them. I hope that the summer models will be greater.
So, here's my opinions:

Cryolophosaurus: Horrible. Vote -1/10

Baryonyx: It's absolutely their best early 2020 release. It's really amazing (for me)! I'll certainly get it. Vote 9,5/10

Agustinia: honestly, it looks uninteresting to me. The overall sculpt is boring, although it looks better than the CollectA one. Vote 5/10

Ankylosaurus: it's actually a nice figure, although if I have to choose an Ankylosaurus there are many better models. Vote 7/10

Postosuchus: it's a decent version of it, although I don't really like it. Vote 4,5/10

Killekor

[tanystropheus]

The Postosuchus looks like it can have an entire Nickelodeon cartoon based around that design!

[Takama]

The Spinosaur was by Vlad Konstantinov.

Yes, it made all the difference. Where have you gone, Vlad? You are sorely missed this year. I'd come to expect at least a couple of decent sculpts per year, the last couple of years. Oh well, yes, more $ for Safari et al. Once we get a look from other angles of sight, perhaps one or two of this years disappointing crop may merit a second look.

I said a million times that I think That Schleich has more then one Sculptor, who they let do there own home work when it comes to Dinosaur anatomy. Some Sculptors have a Better understanding of What a dinosaur looks like then others (Vlad Konstantinov Clearly knows what he is doing) While others just do not care about the effort they put into there sculpture and just resort to google images for there research.

That is how we get gems and abominations in the same year.

Shcleich does not care what there Sculptors do. and they just sell whatever they make.

[SidB]

it's hard to disagree with your conclusion @Takama. There seems to be little if any QC at the top with Schleich, which makes your assertion quite logical. We'll have to wait and see what emerges with the next batch later in the year. Anything is possible. Maybe we'll get Vlad C. back again, I hope.

[Silvanusaurus]

I'm actually really happy with that Baryonyx, I like it more than the new CollectA. I mean, it isn't spectacular by any means, nor as interesting as the recent Spino, but it has way better detail than the other figures in the lineup, just compare the difference in the scales. Still, I had partly hoped we might get a new Baryonyx as ridiculous as their old one.

The Cryolophosaurus though... hilarious. When I saw it I literally thought it was a joke, like someone had just created it in photoshop to make fun of Schleich. It looks like one of those dinosaur 'suits' where you can see a person's legs in black tights coming out the bottom. It puts a smile on my face, if nothing else.

The Postosuchus looks quite alien... the scales on it are bizarre... but it could be really cool if customised a bit.

[Szajmin]

The more i look at Cryolophosaurus  the uglier its get.
Looks like rubber 2012 Shleich Giganotosaurus (14516) but blue and with weird crest.


BTW
Why Postosuchus has that weird back? Is this something real anima had or just inspired by this https://www.deviantart.com/linaenell/art/Nundasuchus-743891528  ?

[terrorchicken]

they're not the worst Schleich dinos they've made...they're just kinda okay.

[Ceratopsianking]

I have mixed feelings about this 2020 lineup

The Baryonyx looks great and is probably the only one
I'll be getting

The Agustinia is very meh

The Cryolophosaurus and Postosuchus are awful

And the Ankylosaurus is not bad(matter of fact it's actually growing on me) but it's very jurassic world inspired.

[Brontozaurus]

The Baryonyx is clearly the best of the bunch, though the bar is admittedly set at ground level.

I'm surprisingly finding the Cryolophosaurus less awful than everyone else, to me it's more average than anything. The Postosuchus is truly heinous, however.

[Shonisaurus]

The two best Schleich dinosaur figures are by far the first baryonyx (it reminds me of his painting of the best Battat dinosaurs) and the ankylosaurus.

On average I like agustinia but cryolophosaurus and postosuchus are not good figures. The positive thing about cryolophosaurus is the striking paint touches and the postosuchus its finely sculpted legs.

But for now Schleich's alignment is passable compared to the previous year. But the baryonyx compensates in quality to the rest of dinosaurs of Schleich 2020.